A man needing medical assistance but was cut off by Friday’s windstorm led to a pretty interesting call for Prince George Search and Rescue.
At about 1:30am on Saturday, PGSAR was called by BC Emergency Health Service to help the stranded man who was dealing with a pacemaker issue.
Dave Merritt told MyPGNow.com due to over 30 fallen trees blocking critical access points, they needed a helicopter to assist the man on Hofferkamp Road.
“We worked with BC Ambulance in the morning to to set up a plan to fly in and and assist them on this call because their helicopter just just couldn’t land in the area where we needed to pick this gentleman up at.”
“We flew a team of three there with the local Yellowhead Helicopters to the site, and from what BC Ambulance was telling us, it was a pretty, you know, just a precautionary piece. So, for us, we don’t really care what the issue is. We just we’ve been asked to assist somebody in the community, so we go and do that.”
A total of six personnel were involved, which saw the patient flown to the Prince George Airport where he was then taken to hospital.
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